MedPageToday In the late 1990s, my long-time colleague, Pam Nagami, MD, met a petite, Indian-American student she later called “Manju” when writing a terrific book about patients with infectious diseases. Some of the stories by Nagami end happily, but Manju’s did not — and all because of a case of measles she contracted early in life.
So, now that WHO experts are predicting that more than half the world could face serious measles outbreaks by the end of this year, I’ve begun to wonder: just how many modern-day doctors, much less vaccine-hesitant parents, know the virus’s most calamitous blows?